The main target of this paper is to analyse how EMS operate in the German economy and to evaluate the role of ecological initiatives among companies dealing with various aspects of global economic and environmental issues. The article unde...
The environmental impacts of the program of developing the interior were wholly negative. In Brazil,half of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions are land use changes and another quarter are from the agriculture sector, leading Brazil to emit 10.7 t/capita in greenhouse gases. In Germany, the ...
In this article, we explore a series of issues and tensions raised by the papers in this Special Issue of Environmental Education Research. The papers focus on developments in environmental education and ESD research in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In order to provide an alternative framework ...
Environmental issueshave long confronted the uses of glass. As early as the beginning of the 17th century, excessive consumption of charcoal for metallurgy and glassmaking in England gave rise to laws designed to preserve forests. However, substitution of coal for charcoal resulted in serious difficu...
Supreme audit institutions (SAIs) are fundamental institutions in liberal democracies as they enable control of the exercise of state power. In order to maintain this function, SAIs must enjoy a high level of independence. Moreover, SAIs are increasingly expected to be also relevant for government...
© 1996 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg About this chapter Cite this chapter Streibel, G. (1996). Environmental Protection: Problems and Prospects in East and West Germany. In: Welfens, P.J.J. (eds) Economic Aspects of German Unification. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10...
Starting from this premise, we carried out an original study on the financial materiality of the E-S-G (environmental, social and governance) information of primary companies listed on major European indices in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Spain (BEL, CAC, DAX, FTSE-MIB, IBEX). ...
Banking on these current issues of global environment and carbon emissions, we ask the following questions: What is the current shape of global EKC when new additional factors are taken into account? Is there heterogeneity in the impact of various factors on carbon emissions in different types of...
Besides, these countries are located amid Russia and huge-energy-consuming Western European countries (e.g. France, Germany), making their strategic location very important. Therefore, studying the existence of the EKC hypothesis in this region is vital both at the country and regional level. In...
Mapping Environmental Inequalities Relevant for Health for Informing Urban Planning Interventions—A Case Study in the City of Dortmund, Germany. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2016, 13, 711. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [Green Version] Newell, K.; Kartsonaki, C.; Lam, K.B.H.; ...